Improvement in portable swings



Letters Patent No. 111,570, datedFebrnary 7, 1871.

IMPROVEMENT iN PORTABLE SWINGS.I

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of thesame.

To all whom 'it may 'concern Be it known that I, DANIEL M'. REYNOLDS, ofthe city of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Portable Springs; and ldo hereby (ieclare the following to, be a full, clear, and exactdescription ot the same, reference being had to the acin which v Y yFigure l is a side elevation, and Figure 2 is a front elevation. Similarletters of reference in the drawing denote like parts. A

, The object of this invention is to provide for public use a neat,simple, and convenient portable swing', which can be readily set vup andtaken down, requiring no supports but its own frame, and which can bepacked in a very small compass for transportation.

This object is accomplished by the devices oonstructed and operating ashereinafter set forth.

In the drawingv r lr' are rounds of nearly equal length, terminatingcompanying drawing forming part of this specification,

at each end in pins of' journals, and connected by side "bars b b toforni the base of the frame.

a a are two bars, longer than b b, and connected at their lower ends tothe journals of round r.

, o c are two similar bars, connected at their lower ends to thejournals of round rl, the uppenends of the bars a a c c being allconnected to a third round, r2, the rounds and bars thus-forming atriangular snpporting-framc for the swings. d d are two swinging rodsattached to the round fr2 and supporting the seat S, which is heldbetween the two rods, its weight restingupon shoulders formed on their'inner sides forthe purpose. The seatbeiug Y thus supported is heldfirmly inv position bynieans of I' preferred.

a cleat, s, on the side otthe seat, which touches one edge of the barsand an eccentric or button, s', which `can be fastened over the other,thus clamping the rods firmly to the sides oi' the sea The seveilal barsct I) c (l are all connected to the rounds by means o`;the'jo\1rnals onthe latter, which vpass through holes made in the ends ofthe former, andare secured by pins or' nuts u u. Washers w w may be interposed betweenthe several bars connected to the saine end of any one of the rounds, it

In packing the swing-'fortransportation it is only necessary to take outthe pins and disconnect bars c c from round r1, then bring the free endsof those bars alongside of the front bars au, inserting the journals Aofthe front round r into the holes at theirlower ends; then bring` theround 'Irl up against the back of the pendentbars (Z d, and swing thewhole forward until it is in line with and inolosed between the Outerbars a a.. The round r1 may be disconnected and placed between the barsd d, and it preferred the seat may be detached and placed in the sameposipion, or packed with othersof diiierent sizes separately from theframes.

Having thus described my invention,

What I claim as new therein, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

rlhe combination of seat S, button s', cleat s, and pendent rods (Zd,having a shoulder for the support of the seat, when employed in a swing,substantially as described.

DANIEL M. REYNOLDS.

Wtnesses E. A. ELLSWORTH, N. K. ELLswoRTH.

' didnt -DANIEL M.REYNOLDS, OF OHIOAGOILLINOIS.

